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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

pete + repeat

The quilts for my boys are finally done!I love everything about them!the frontsthe backs (pieced from my stash! woo-hoo!)I think my favorite part is the binding. (Also from my stash! Another woo-hoo!) It's an Amy Butler dot in the most perfect shade of orange ever. It's like the icing on the cake.

I stippled them both in white thread. It felt like a stippling test, because the thread contrasted with so much of the fabric on the fronts and the backs. Even though it was a little stressful, I think I passed the test. :)I thought of hiding a quilted heart into each quilt. I asked my boys if that was ok, because they ARE boys after all. They were very receptive to the idea, which made my sappy mom heart so very happy. Since I thought of the idea after I completed one quilt, I have to go back to hide a heart in the first quilt. It's so funny how much they love that little touch. (insert sappy grin here.)

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I assume the orange end is the pillow end? Very smart -- your design won't get covered up by the pillow. I love your colors and design, and especially your hidden heart: a special hug from mom to sons.

LOVE THEM!! And how cute are those hidden hearts? I'll have to file that idea away. Isn't it great that just when we think our boys are *BOYS* they go and surprise us with something so sweet and sappy?! I'm off to go give my boys a hug now :)P.S. Oh, I just bought three yards of that Amy Butler tangerine dot off of etsy ~ I was afraid I was going to run out!!!

Love, love, love! They look wonderful, and I love that binding. And well done on the stippling with white thread! I stippled a quilt with contrasting thread the other day and... well... it was less successful. Ah well, live and learn. :-)

I love the quilts - but what I really want to know is how do your get your boys to keep their room so neat? Maybe you could help some of us other moms out with a tutorial for that! Thanks as always for the inspiration and for sharing.

Love the colors. Am I the only one that has caught that your first two pictures show the quilts hanging from your gutters??? LOL -- it worked well, the pictures are very bright and clear. Of course you could have taken the pictures in a cave and the quilts still would have looked great!

Great job, Amanda Jean. And I'm with Lynn in being impressed with the clean room. None of my boys can keep their rooms clean -- actually, neither can my girls. You have inspired me to make new quilts for two of my boys. Of course, I will not finish them as rapidly as you did yours. I am absolutely certain of that. Okay. I'm off to plant hydrangeas. Can't wait to see what you come up with next, girl!

These turned out great! I love the heart idea. What a nice way to add an additional special touch that only comes from things that are custom made! I really need to learn how to machine quilt so I can get around to finishing some quilt tops that I have put together!

Very lovely - mirror image looks great on the two beds. I always sneak hearts into my quilts for Just The Four Boys (now Just The Six Boys with two handsome stepsons! What a bonus - a lovely bloke AND funny dog AND two lovely boys!!!).Keep sewing/quilting.Hugs from Down Under.xxxx

So handsome! I love the quilted heart touch and if I ever quilt my own I will do the same, without asking though, just let them find it one day on their own. My kids would be very receptive to something like that (a boy and a girl).

I adore the quilts so much that I want to make something similar for my son. How did you make the off-centred blocks? Are they done in the same way as your Paintbox blocks, or are they more like a Wonky Log Cabin?

Hope this isn't a dumb question ... I'm a quilting newby. Just completing my first quilt and have lots of ideas for other quilts that I want to try!

Probably repeating someone, but they know whose is whose? They are of course fantastic, any ideas for a full size quilt for a monkey loving 2 1/2 year old? Everyone I speak to, apparently knows about you! Book or TV in the works? We're all wondering!

Absolutely fantastic quilts!Amandajean strolling to your blog each day is both interesting and frightning.Frightning because you explain things so quilts seem so easy to make that I want to start making it straight away and then I'm terrified by the idea that I'm too new to quilting and will have to leave it for further on!! Know what I mean??

i think these are my fav of all you've made. there's just something about them. simple, but so graphic and such impact...lucky boys...great idea putting in a hidden heart. makes for a wonderful quilt story.

I love the orange and grey. My boys' room is blue, grey, and orange. I just asked my 8 year old and he says he thinks they're cool too. Maybe I'll just have to make some too. Thanks for a great idea. (and all your great ideas :)

I know you're not blogging anymore but I hope you will answer my question. I just stumbled on your site and I LOVE it and am sad you won't be blogging anymore. I have twin boys and would love to make this quilt for them or have it made. Would you be able to share your pattern? Also, what fabrics did you use? I am clearly a newbie. Thanks so much for your help and inspiration!